[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2797]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     REMEMBERING THURGOOD MARSHALL

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, today is the last day of Black History Month, 
a month when we reflect back on African Americans who have contributed 
so much to our country and our world. One man whose life encapsulates 
the African American struggle was Thurgood Marshall. George Stevens 
produced a play called ``Thurgood'' at the Kennedy Center. The play has 
been put to film on HBO. I think it's still available on HBO; at least 
on demand.
  It is the story of a man who was committed to justice. Through the 
NAACP, he argued Brown v. Board of Education, the most significant 
civil rights case, maybe the most significant Supreme Court case of all 
time. He became the first African American solicitor general in this 
country and the first African American Supreme Court justice and served 
honorably on that court.
  He was a man that never forgot where he came from. His responsibility 
and duty to see that he carried on justice and the fights that he 
carried with him as an attorney and on the court to see that social 
justice and America became the country that was promised in the 
Constitution and in the Declaration of Independence but had not become 
except through Supreme Court rulings.
  Thank God for Thurgood Marshall. I urge everybody to watch George 
Stevens' production on HBO and learn about this great man's life.

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